St Lucy's Home For Wolves Analysis

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To start out, the process of assimilation was done away from the original culture and was done instead at another location. In most cases, the group being assimilated was sent away to boarding schools and homes. As it says in Brenda J. Child’s book Boarding School Seasons, Native Americans were forced to attend “government boarding schools” (2). Likewise, the wolf girls, as stated in Russel’s text, were sent off to “St. Lucy’s to study a better culture” (St. Lucy’s Home for Girls Raised by Wolves pg.238). It was a common practice during the time of Indian assimilation for the schools to a long distance away from the Indian’s homes and families. Similarly, the wolf girls were not allowed to remain in the woods and instead lived at St. Lucy’s.
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